Array ( [TITLE] => The Comedy of Errors [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus. [1] => AEGEON, a merchant of Syracuse. [2] => BALTHAZAR, a merchant [3] => ANGELO, a goldsmith. [4] => First Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. [5] => Second Merchant, to whom Angelo is a debtor. [6] => PINCH, a schoolmaster. [7] => AEMILIA, wife to Aegeon, an abbess at Ephesus. [8] => ADRIANA, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. [9] => LUCIANA, her sister. [10] => LUCE, servant to Adriana. [11] => A Courtezan. [12] => Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [1] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE ) [GRPDESCR] => twin brothers, and sons to Aegeon and Aemilia. ) [1] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [1] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE ) [GRPDESCR] => twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses. ) ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Ephesus. [PLAYSUBT] => THE COMEDY OF ERRORS [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall [1] => And by the doom of death end woes and all. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more; [1] => I am not partial to infringe our laws: [2] => The enmity and discord which of late [3] => Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke [4] => To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, [5] => Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives [6] => Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods, [7] => Excludes all pity from our threatening looks. [8] => For, since the mortal and intestine jars [9] => 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us, [10] => It hath in solemn synods been decreed [11] => Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, [12] => To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more, [13] => If any born at Ephesus be seen [14] => At any Syracusian marts and fairs; [15] => Again: if any Syracusian born [16] => Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies, [17] => His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose, [18] => Unless a thousand marks be levied, [19] => To quit the penalty and to ransom him. [20] => Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, [21] => Cannot amount unto a hundred marks; [22] => Therefore by law thou art condemned to die. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, [1] => My woes end likewise with the evening sun. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause [1] => Why thou departed'st from thy native home [2] => And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A heavier task could not have been imposed [1] => Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable: [2] => Yet, that the world may witness that my end [3] => Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, [4] => I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave. [5] => In Syracusa was I born, and wed [6] => Unto a woman, happy but for me, [7] => And by me, had not our hap been bad. [8] => With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased [9] => By prosperous voyages I often made [10] => To Epidamnum; till my factor's death [11] => And the great care of goods at random left [12] => Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse: [13] => From whom my absence was not six months old [14] => Before herself, almost at fainting under [15] => The pleasing punishment that women bear, [16] => Had made provision for her following me [17] => And soon and safe arrived where I was. [18] => There had she not been long, but she became [19] => A joyful mother of two goodly sons; [20] => And, which was strange, the one so like the other, [21] => As could not be distinguish'd but by names. [22] => That very hour, and in the self-same inn, [23] => A meaner woman was delivered [24] => Of such a burden, male twins, both alike: [25] => Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,-- [26] => I bought and brought up to attend my sons. [27] => My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys, [28] => Made daily motions for our home return: [29] => Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon, [30] => We came aboard. [31] => A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd, [32] => Before the always wind-obeying deep [33] => Gave any tragic instance of our harm: [34] => But longer did we not retain much hope; [35] => For what obscured light the heavens did grant [36] => Did but convey unto our fearful minds [37] => A doubtful warrant of immediate death; [38] => Which though myself would gladly have embraced, [39] => Yet the incessant weepings of my wife, [40] => Weeping before for what she saw must come, [41] => And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, [42] => That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear, [43] => Forced me to seek delays for them and me. [44] => And this it was, for other means was none: [45] => The sailors sought for safety by our boat, [46] => And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us: [47] => My wife, more careful for the latter-born, [48] => Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast, [49] => Such as seafaring men provide for storms; [50] => To him one of the other twins was bound, [51] => Whilst I had been like heedful of the other: [52] => The children thus disposed, my wife and I, [53] => Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd, [54] => Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast; [55] => And floating straight, obedient to the stream, [56] => Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought. [57] => At length the sun, gazing upon the earth, [58] => Dispersed those vapours that offended us; [59] => And by the benefit of his wished light, [60] => The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered [61] => Two ships from far making amain to us, [62] => Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this: [63] => But ere they came,--O, let me say no more! [64] => Gather the sequel by that went before. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so; [1] => For we may pity, though not pardon thee. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, had the gods done so, I had not now [1] => Worthily term'd them merciless to us! [2] => For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues, [3] => We were encounterd by a mighty rock; [4] => Which being violently borne upon, [5] => Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst; [6] => So that, in this unjust divorce of us, [7] => Fortune had left to both of us alike [8] => What to delight in, what to sorrow for. [9] => Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened [10] => With lesser weight but not with lesser woe, [11] => Was carried with more speed before the wind; [12] => And in our sight they three were taken up [13] => By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought. [14] => At length, another ship had seized on us; [15] => And, knowing whom it was their hap to save, [16] => Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests; [17] => And would have reft the fishers of their prey, [18] => Had not their bark been very slow of sail; [19] => And therefore homeward did they bend their course. [20] => Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss; [21] => That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd, [22] => To tell sad stories of my own mishaps. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for, [1] => Do me the favour to dilate at full [2] => What hath befall'n of them and thee till now. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care, [1] => At eighteen years became inquisitive [2] => After his brother: and importuned me [3] => That his attendant--so his case was like, [4] => Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name-- [5] => Might bear him company in the quest of him: [6] => Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see, [7] => I hazarded the loss of whom I loved. [8] => Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece, [9] => Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia, [10] => And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus; [11] => Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought [12] => Or that or any place that harbours men. [13] => But here must end the story of my life; [14] => And happy were I in my timely death, [15] => Could all my travels warrant me they live. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd [1] => To bear the extremity of dire mishap! [2] => Now, trust me, were it not against our laws, [3] => Against my crown, my oath, my dignity, [4] => Which princes, would they, may not disannul, [5] => My soul would sue as advocate for thee. [6] => But, though thou art adjudged to the death [7] => And passed sentence may not be recall'd [8] => But to our honour's great disparagement, [9] => Yet I will favour thee in what I can. [10] => Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day [11] => To seek thy life by beneficial help: [12] => Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus; [13] => Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum, [14] => And live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die. [15] => Gaoler, take him to thy custody. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => I will, my lord. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend, [1] => But to procrastinate his lifeless end. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The Mart. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse, and First Merchant [1] => Exit [2] => Exit [3] => Exit [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum, [1] => Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. [2] => This very day a Syracusian merchant [3] => Is apprehended for arrival here; [4] => And not being able to buy out his life [5] => According to the statute of the town, [6] => Dies ere the weary sun set in the west. [7] => There is your money that I had to keep. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, [1] => And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee. [2] => Within this hour it will be dinner-time: [3] => Till that, I'll view the manners of the town, [4] => Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, [5] => And then return and sleep within mine inn, [6] => For with long travel I am stiff and weary. [7] => Get thee away. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Many a man would take you at your word, [1] => And go indeed, having so good a mean. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, [1] => When I am dull with care and melancholy, [2] => Lightens my humour with his merry jests. [3] => What, will you walk with me about the town, [4] => And then go to my inn and dine with me? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am invited, sir, to certain merchants, [1] => Of whom I hope to make much benefit; [2] => I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock, [3] => Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart [4] => And afterward consort you till bed-time: [5] => My present business calls me from you now. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell till then: I will go lose myself [1] => And wander up and down to view the city. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Merchant [LINE] => Sir, I commend you to your own content. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He that commends me to mine own content [1] => Commends me to the thing I cannot get. [2] => I to the world am like a drop of water [3] => That in the ocean seeks another drop, [4] => Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, [5] => Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: [6] => So I, to find a mother and a brother, [7] => In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. [8] => Here comes the almanac of my true date. [9] => What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter DROMIO of Ephesus ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late: [1] => The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, [2] => The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; [3] => My mistress made it one upon my cheek: [4] => She is so hot because the meat is cold; [5] => The meat is cold because you come not home; [6] => You come not home because you have no stomach; [7] => You have no stomach having broke your fast; [8] => But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray [9] => Are penitent for your default to-day. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray: [1] => Where have you left the money that I gave you? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last [1] => To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper? [2] => The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am not in a sportive humour now: [1] => Tell me, and dally not, where is the money? [2] => We being strangers here, how darest thou trust [3] => So great a charge from thine own custody? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner: [1] => I from my mistress come to you in post; [2] => If I return, I shall be post indeed, [3] => For she will score your fault upon my pate. [4] => Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock, [5] => And strike you home without a messenger. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season; [1] => Reserve them till a merrier hour than this. [2] => Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee? ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness, [1] => And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My charge was but to fetch you from the mart [1] => Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner: [2] => My mistress and her sister stays for you. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In what safe place you have bestow'd my money, [1] => Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours [2] => That stands on tricks when I am undisposed: [3] => Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have some marks of yours upon my pate, [1] => Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders, [2] => But not a thousand marks between you both. [3] => If I should pay your worship those again, [4] => Perchance you will not bear them patiently. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix; [1] => She that doth fast till you come home to dinner, [2] => And prays that you will hie you home to dinner. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face, [1] => Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands! [1] => Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Upon my life, by some device or other [1] => The villain is o'er-raught of all my money. [2] => They say this town is full of cozenage, [3] => As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, [4] => Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind, [5] => Soul-killing witches that deform the body, [6] => Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, [7] => And many such-like liberties of sin: [8] => If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner. [9] => I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave: [10] => I greatly fear my money is not safe. ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA [1] => Enter DROMIO of Ephesus [2] => Exit [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Neither my husband nor the slave return'd, [1] => That in such haste I sent to seek his master! [2] => Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, [1] => And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner. [2] => Good sister, let us dine and never fret: [3] => A man is master of his liberty: [4] => Time is their master, and, when they see time, [5] => They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Why should their liberty than ours be more? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Because their business still lies out o' door. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => O, know he is the bridle of your will. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => There's none but asses will be bridled so. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe. [1] => There's nothing situate under heaven's eye [2] => But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky: [3] => The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, [4] => Are their males' subjects and at their controls: [5] => Men, more divine, the masters of all these, [6] => Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas, [7] => Indued with intellectual sense and souls, [8] => Of more preeminence than fish and fowls, [9] => Are masters to their females, and their lords: [10] => Then let your will attend on their accords. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => This servitude makes you to keep unwed. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => How if your husband start some other where? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Till he come home again, I would forbear. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause; [1] => They can be meek that have no other cause. [2] => A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, [3] => We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; [4] => But were we burdened with like weight of pain, [5] => As much or more would we ourselves complain: [6] => So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, [7] => With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me, [8] => But, if thou live to see like right bereft, [9] => This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I will marry one day, but to try. [1] => Here comes your man; now is your husband nigh. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Say, is your tardy master now at hand? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears [1] => can witness. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear: [1] => Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his [1] => blows; and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce [2] => understand them. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he [1] => hath great care to please his wife. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Horn-mad, thou villain! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I mean not cuckold-mad; [1] => But, sure, he is stark mad. [2] => When I desired him to come home to dinner, [3] => He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold: [4] => ''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he; [5] => 'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he: [6] => 'Will you come home?' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he. [7] => 'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?' [8] => 'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd;' 'My gold!' quoth he: [9] => 'My mistress, sir' quoth I; 'Hang up thy mistress! [10] => I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!' ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Quoth who? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Quoth my master: [1] => 'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.' [2] => So that my errand, due unto my tongue, [3] => I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders; [4] => For, in conclusion, he did beat me there. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go back again, and be new beaten home? [1] => For God's sake, send some other messenger. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And he will bless that cross with other beating: [1] => Between you I shall have a holy head. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Am I so round with you as you with me, [1] => That like a football you do spurn me thus? [2] => You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither: [3] => If I last in this service, you must case me in leather. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Fie, how impatience loureth in your face! ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His company must do his minions grace, [1] => Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. [2] => Hath homely age the alluring beauty took [3] => From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it: [4] => Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? [5] => If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd, [6] => Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard: [7] => Do their gay vestments his affections bait? [8] => That's not my fault: he's master of my state: [9] => What ruins are in me that can be found, [10] => By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground [11] => Of my defeatures. My decayed fair [12] => A sunny look of his would soon repair [13] => But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale [14] => And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence! ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense. [1] => I know his eye doth homage otherwhere, [2] => Or else what lets it but he would be here? [3] => Sister, you know he promised me a chain; [4] => Would that alone, alone he would detain, [5] => So he would keep fair quarter with his bed! [6] => I see the jewel best enamelled [7] => Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still, [8] => That others touch, and often touching will [9] => Wear gold: and no man that hath a name, [10] => By falsehood and corruption doth it shame. [11] => Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, [12] => I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A public place. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse [1] => Beating him [2] => Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up [1] => Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave [2] => Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out [3] => By computation and mine host's report. [4] => I could not speak with Dromio since at first [5] => I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes. [6] => How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd? [7] => As you love strokes, so jest with me again. [8] => You know no Centaur? you received no gold? [9] => Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner? [10] => My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad, [11] => That thus so madly thou didst answer me? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter DROMIO of Syracuse ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What answer, sir? when spake I such a word? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Even now, even here, not half an hour since. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did not see you since you sent me hence, [1] => Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt, [1] => And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner; [2] => For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am glad to see you in this merry vein: [1] => What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? [1] => Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest: [1] => Upon what bargain do you give it me? ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because that I familiarly sometimes [1] => Do use you for my fool and chat with you, [2] => Your sauciness will jest upon my love [3] => And make a common of my serious hours. [4] => When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, [5] => But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. [6] => If you will jest with me, know my aspect, [7] => And fashion your demeanor to my looks, [8] => Or I will beat this method in your sconce. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I [1] => had rather have it a head: an you use these blows [2] => long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce [3] => it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders. [4] => But, I pray, sir why am I beaten? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Dost thou not know? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Shall I tell you why? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath [1] => a wherefore. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, first,--for flouting me; and then, wherefore-- [1] => For urging it the second time to me. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, [1] => When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme [2] => nor reason? [3] => Well, sir, I thank you. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Thank me, sir, for what? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for [1] => something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time? ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => In good time, sir; what's that? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Basting. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Well, sir, then 'twill be dry. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Your reason? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another [1] => dry basting. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a [1] => time for all things. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => By what rule, sir? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald [1] => pate of father Time himself. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Let's hear it. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's no time for a man to recover his hair that [1] => grows bald by nature. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => May he not do it by fine and recovery? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the [1] => lost hair of another man. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, [1] => so plentiful an excrement? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts; [1] => and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth [1] => it in a kind of jollity. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => For what reason? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => For two; and sound ones too. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Nay, not sound, I pray you. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Sure ones, then. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Certain ones then. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Name them. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The one, to save the money that he spends in [1] => trimming; the other, that at dinner they should not [2] => drop in his porridge. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You would all this time have proved there is no [1] => time for all things. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair [1] => lost by nature. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But your reason was not substantial, why there is no [1] => time to recover. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore [1] => to the world's end will have bald followers. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion: [1] => But, soft! who wafts us yonder? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown: [1] => Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects; [2] => I am not Adriana nor thy wife. [3] => The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow [4] => That never words were music to thine ear, [5] => That never object pleasing in thine eye, [6] => That never touch well welcome to thy hand, [7] => That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste, [8] => Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee. [9] => How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it, [10] => That thou art thus estranged from thyself? [11] => Thyself I call it, being strange to me, [12] => That, undividable, incorporate, [13] => Am better than thy dear self's better part. [14] => Ah, do not tear away thyself from me! [15] => For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall [16] => A drop of water in the breaking gulf, [17] => And take unmingled that same drop again, [18] => Without addition or diminishing, [19] => As take from me thyself and not me too. [20] => How dearly would it touch me to the quick, [21] => Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious [22] => And that this body, consecrate to thee, [23] => By ruffian lust should be contaminate! [24] => Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me [25] => And hurl the name of husband in my face [26] => And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow [27] => And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring [28] => And break it with a deep-divorcing vow? [29] => I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it. [30] => I am possess'd with an adulterate blot; [31] => My blood is mingled with the crime of lust: [32] => For if we too be one and thou play false, [33] => I do digest the poison of thy flesh, [34] => Being strumpeted by thy contagion. [35] => Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed; [36] => I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not: [1] => In Ephesus I am but two hours old, [2] => As strange unto your town as to your talk; [3] => Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd, [4] => Want wit in all one word to understand. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you! [1] => When were you wont to use my sister thus? [2] => She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => By Dromio? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => By me? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By thee; and this thou didst return from him, [1] => That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows, [2] => Denied my house for his, me for his wife. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman? [1] => What is the course and drift of your compact? ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I, sir? I never saw her till this time. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Villain, thou liest; for even her very words [1] => Didst thou deliver to me on the mart. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I never spake with her in all my life. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How can she thus then call us by our names, [1] => Unless it be by inspiration. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How ill agrees it with your gravity [1] => To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, [2] => Abetting him to thwart me in my mood! [3] => Be it my wrong you are from me exempt, [4] => But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. [5] => Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: [6] => Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, [7] => Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, [8] => Makes me with thy strength to communicate: [9] => If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, [10] => Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; [11] => Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion [12] => Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme: [1] => What, was I married to her in my dream? [2] => Or sleep I now and think I hear all this? [3] => What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? [4] => Until I know this sure uncertainty, [5] => I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. [1] => This is the fairy land: O spite of spites! [2] => We talk with goblins, owls and sprites: [3] => If we obey them not, this will ensue, [4] => They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not? [1] => Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I am transformed, master, am I not? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I think thou art in mind, and so am I. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Thou hast thine own form. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => No, I am an ape. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass. [1] => 'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be [2] => But I should know her as well as she knows me. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, no longer will I be a fool, [1] => To put the finger in the eye and weep, [2] => Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn. [3] => Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate. [4] => Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day [5] => And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. [6] => Sirrah, if any ask you for your master, [7] => Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter. [8] => Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? [1] => Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised? [2] => Known unto these, and to myself disguised! [3] => I'll say as they say and persever so, [4] => And in this mist at all adventures go. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Master, shall I be porter at the gate? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late. ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Before the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus, ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all; [1] => My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: [2] => Say that I linger'd with you at your shop [3] => To see the making of her carcanet, [4] => And that to-morrow you will bring it home. [5] => But here's a villain that would face me down [6] => He met me on the mart, and that I beat him, [7] => And charged him with a thousand marks in gold, [8] => And that I did deny my wife and house. [9] => Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know; [1] => That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show: [2] => If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink, [3] => Your own handwriting would tell you what I think. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I think thou art an ass. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, so it doth appear [1] => By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear. [2] => I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pass, [3] => You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer [1] => May answer my good will and your good welcome here. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHAZAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your [1] => welcome dear. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish, [1] => A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHAZAR [LINE] => Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHAZAR [LINE] => Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest: [1] => But though my cates be mean, take them in good part; [2] => Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart. [3] => But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => idiot, patch! [2] => Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch. [3] => Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st [4] => for such store, [5] => When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What patch is made our porter? My master stays in [1] => the street. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => catch cold on's feet. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Who talks within there? ho, open the door! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => me wherefore. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => when you may. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => is Dromio. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name. [1] => The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame. [2] => If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, [3] => Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy [4] => name for an ass. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => at the gate? ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Let my master in, Luce. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => And so tell your master. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Lord, I must laugh! [1] => Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => can you tell? ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => answered him well. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Thou baggage, let me in. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Master, knock the door hard. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => this noise? ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => unruly boys. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Are you there, wife? you might have come before. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would [1] => fain have either. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHAZAR [LINE] => In debating which was best, we shall part with neither. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You would say so, master, if your garments were thin. [1] => Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold: [2] => It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => knave's pate. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind, [1] => Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => thee, hind! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee, [1] => let me in. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A crow without feather? Master, mean you so? [1] => For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather; [2] => If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHAZAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so! [1] => Herein you war against your reputation [2] => And draw within the compass of suspect [3] => The unviolated honour of your wife. [4] => Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom, [5] => Her sober virtue, years and modesty, [6] => Plead on her part some cause to you unknown: [7] => And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse [8] => Why at this time the doors are made against you. [9] => Be ruled by me: depart in patience, [10] => And let us to the Tiger all to dinner, [11] => And about evening come yourself alone [12] => To know the reason of this strange restraint. [13] => If by strong hand you offer to break in [14] => Now in the stirring passage of the day, [15] => A vulgar comment will be made of it, [16] => And that supposed by the common rout [17] => Against your yet ungalled estimation [18] => That may with foul intrusion enter in [19] => And dwell upon your grave when you are dead; [20] => For slander lives upon succession, [21] => For ever housed where it gets possession. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet, [1] => And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry. [2] => I know a wench of excellent discourse, [3] => Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle: [4] => There will we dine. This woman that I mean, [5] => My wife--but, I protest, without desert-- [6] => Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal: [7] => To her will we to dinner. [8] => Get you home [9] => And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made: [10] => Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine; [11] => For there's the house: that chain will I bestow-- [12] => Be it for nothing but to spite my wife-- [13] => Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste. [14] => Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, [15] => I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me. ) [STAGEDIR] => To Angelo ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I'll meet you at that place some hour hence. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse [1] => Exit [2] => Enter DROMIO of Syracuse [3] => Exit [4] => Enter ANGELO with the chain [5] => Exit [6] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And may it be that you have quite forgot [1] => A husband's office? shall, Antipholus. [2] => Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot? [3] => Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous? [4] => If you did wed my sister for her wealth, [5] => Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness: [6] => Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; [7] => Muffle your false love with some show of blindness: [8] => Let not my sister read it in your eye; [9] => Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; [10] => Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty; [11] => Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; [12] => Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; [13] => Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; [14] => Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted? [15] => What simple thief brags of his own attaint? [16] => 'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed [17] => And let her read it in thy looks at board: [18] => Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed; [19] => Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. [20] => Alas, poor women! make us but believe, [21] => Being compact of credit, that you love us; [22] => Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve; [23] => We in your motion turn and you may move us. [24] => Then, gentle brother, get you in again; [25] => Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife: [26] => 'Tis holy sport to be a little vain, [27] => When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not, [1] => Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,-- [2] => Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not [3] => Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine. [4] => Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; [5] => Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, [6] => Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, [7] => The folded meaning of your words' deceit. [8] => Against my soul's pure truth why labour you [9] => To make it wander in an unknown field? [10] => Are you a god? would you create me new? [11] => Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield. [12] => But if that I am I, then well I know [13] => Your weeping sister is no wife of mine, [14] => Nor to her bed no homage do I owe [15] => Far more, far more to you do I decline. [16] => O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, [17] => To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears: [18] => Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote: [19] => Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs, [20] => And as a bed I'll take them and there lie, [21] => And in that glorious supposition think [22] => He gains by death that hath such means to die: [23] => Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => What, are you mad, that you do reason so? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => It is a fault that springeth from your eye. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Why call you me love? call my sister so. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Thy sister's sister. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => That's my sister. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No; [1] => It is thyself, mine own self's better part, [2] => Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart, [3] => My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim, [4] => My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => All this my sister is, or else should be. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee. [1] => Thee will I love and with thee lead my life: [2] => Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife. [3] => Give me thy hand. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, soft, air! hold you still: [1] => I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man? [1] => am I myself? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one [1] => that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What claim lays she to thee? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your [1] => horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I [2] => being a beast, she would have me; but that she, [3] => being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What is she? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may [1] => not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have [2] => but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a [3] => wondrous fat marriage. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => How dost thou mean a fat marriage? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; [1] => and I know not what use to put her to but to make a [2] => lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I [3] => warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a [4] => Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday, [5] => she'll burn a week longer than the whole world. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What complexion is she of? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so [1] => clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over [2] => shoes in the grime of it. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => That's a fault that water will mend. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What's her name? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's [1] => an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from [2] => hip to hip. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Then she bears some breadth? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: [1] => she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out [2] => countries in her. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => In what part of her body stands Ireland? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where Scotland? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where France? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war [1] => against her heir. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where England? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no [1] => whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin, [2] => by the salt rheum that ran between France and it. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where Spain? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where America, the Indies? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with [1] => rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich [2] => aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole [3] => armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this [1] => drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me [2] => Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what [3] => privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my [4] => shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my [5] => left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch: [6] => And, I think, if my breast had not been made of [7] => faith and my heart of steel, [8] => She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made [9] => me turn i' the wheel. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go hie thee presently, post to the road: [1] => An if the wind blow any way from shore, [2] => I will not harbour in this town to-night: [3] => If any bark put forth, come to the mart, [4] => Where I will walk till thou return to me. [5] => If every one knows us and we know none, [6] => 'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As from a bear a man would run for life, [1] => So fly I from her that would be my wife. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's none but witches do inhabit here; [1] => And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence. [2] => She that doth call me husband, even my soul [3] => Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister, [4] => Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace, [5] => Of such enchanting presence and discourse, [6] => Hath almost made me traitor to myself: [7] => But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong, [8] => I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Master Antipholus,-- ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Ay, that's my name. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain. [1] => I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine: [2] => The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What is your will that I shall do with this? ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have. [1] => Go home with it and please your wife withal; [2] => And soon at supper-time I'll visit you [3] => And then receive my money for the chain. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, sir, receive the money now, [1] => For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => You are a merry man, sir: fare you well. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What I should think of this, I cannot tell: [1] => But this I think, there's no man is so vain [2] => That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain. [3] => I see a man here needs not live by shifts, [4] => When in the streets he meets such golden gifts. [5] => I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay [6] => If any ship put out, then straight away. ) ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A public place. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer [1] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus from the courtezan's [2] => Exit [3] => Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay [4] => Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and Antipholus of Ephesus [5] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You know since Pentecost the sum is due, [1] => And since I have not much importuned you; [2] => Nor now I had not, but that I am bound [3] => To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage: [4] => Therefore make present satisfaction, [5] => Or I'll attach you by this officer. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Even just the sum that I do owe to you [1] => Is growing to me by Antipholus, [2] => And in the instant that I met with you [3] => He had of me a chain: at five o'clock [4] => I shall receive the money for the same. [5] => Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house, [6] => I will discharge my bond and thank you too. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => That labour may you save: see where he comes. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou [1] => And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow [2] => Among my wife and her confederates, [3] => For locking me out of my doors by day. [4] => But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone; [5] => Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A man is well holp up that trusts to you: [1] => I promised your presence and the chain; [2] => But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me. [3] => Belike you thought our love would last too long, [4] => If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Saving your merry humour, here's the note [1] => How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, [2] => The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. [3] => Which doth amount to three odd ducats more [4] => Than I stand debted to this gentleman: [5] => I pray you, see him presently discharged, [6] => For he is bound to sea and stays but for it. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am not furnish'd with the present money; [1] => Besides, I have some business in the town. [2] => Good signior, take the stranger to my house [3] => And with you take the chain and bid my wife [4] => Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof: [5] => Perchance I will be there as soon as you. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Then you will bring the chain to her yourself? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An if I have not, sir, I hope you have; [1] => Or else you may return without your money. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain: [1] => Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman, [2] => And I, to blame, have held him here too long. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse [1] => Your breach of promise to the Porpentine. [2] => I should have chid you for not bringing it, [3] => But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => You hear how he importunes me;--the chain! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, you know I gave it you even now. [1] => Either send the chain or send me by some token. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, now you run this humour out of breath, [1] => where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My business cannot brook this dalliance. [1] => Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no: [2] => If not, I'll leave him to the officer. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I answer you! what should I answer you? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => The money that you owe me for the chain. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I owe you none till I receive the chain. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => You know I gave it you half an hour since. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You wrong me more, sir, in denying it: [1] => Consider how it stands upon my credit. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Well, officer, arrest him at my suit. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => I do; and charge you in the duke's name to obey me. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This touches me in reputation. [1] => Either consent to pay this sum for me [2] => Or I attach you by this officer. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Consent to pay thee that I never had! [1] => Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer, [1] => I would not spare my brother in this case, [2] => If he should scorn me so apparently. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do obey thee till I give thee bail. [1] => But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear [2] => As all the metal in your shop will answer. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus, [1] => To your notorious shame; I doubt it not. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum [1] => That stays but till her owner comes aboard, [2] => And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir, [3] => I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought [4] => The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae. [5] => The ship is in her trim; the merry wind [6] => Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all [7] => But for their owner, master, and yourself. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep, [1] => What ship of Epidamnum stays for me? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope; [1] => And told thee to what purpose and what end. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You sent me for a rope's end as soon: [1] => You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will debate this matter at more leisure [1] => And teach your ears to list me with more heed. [2] => To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight: [3] => Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk [4] => That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry, [5] => There is a purse of ducats; let her send it: [6] => Tell her I am arrested in the street [7] => And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone! [8] => On, officer, to prison till it come. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To Adriana! that is where we dined, [1] => Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband: [2] => She is too big, I hope, for me to compass. [3] => Thither I must, although against my will, [4] => For servants must their masters' minds fulfil. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA [1] => Enter DROMIO of Syracuse [2] => Re-enter LUCIANA with a purse [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so? [1] => Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye [2] => That he did plead in earnest? yea or no? [3] => Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily? [4] => What observation madest thou in this case [5] => Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => First he denied you had in him no right. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => He meant he did me none; the more my spite. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Then swore he that he was a stranger here. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Then pleaded I for you. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => And what said he? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => With what persuasion did he tempt thy love? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With words that in an honest suit might move. [1] => First he did praise my beauty, then my speech. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Didst speak him fair? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Have patience, I beseech. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still; [1] => My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. [2] => He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, [3] => Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; [4] => Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; [5] => Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who would be jealous then of such a one? [1] => No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, but I think him better than I say, [1] => And yet would herein others' eyes were worse. [2] => Far from her nest the lapwing cries away: [3] => My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => How hast thou lost thy breath? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => By running fast. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. [1] => A devil in an everlasting garment hath him; [2] => One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel; [3] => A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough; [4] => A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; [5] => A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that [6] => countermands [7] => The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands; [8] => A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well; [9] => One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Why, man, what is the matter? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not at whose suit he is arrested well; [1] => But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell. [2] => Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk? ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go fetch it, sister. [1] => This I wonder at, [2] => That he, unknown to me, should be in debt. [3] => Tell me, was he arrested on a band? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Luciana ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not on a band, but on a stronger thing; [1] => A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => What, the chain? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone: [1] => It was two ere I left him, and now the clock [2] => strikes one. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => The hours come back! that did I never hear. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for [1] => very fear. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's [1] => worth, to season. [2] => Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say [3] => That Time comes stealing on by night and day? [4] => If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, [5] => Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight; [1] => And bring thy master home immediately. [2] => Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit-- [3] => Conceit, my comfort and my injury. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A public place. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse [1] => Enter DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [2] => Enter a Courtezan [3] => Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's not a man I meet but doth salute me [1] => As if I were their well-acquainted friend; [2] => And every one doth call me by my name. [3] => Some tender money to me; some invite me; [4] => Some other give me thanks for kindnesses; [5] => Some offer me commodities to buy: [6] => Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop [7] => And show'd me silks that he had bought for me, [8] => And therewithal took measure of my body. [9] => Sure, these are but imaginary wiles [10] => And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have [1] => you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled? ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam [1] => that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's [2] => skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came [3] => behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you [4] => forsake your liberty. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I understand thee not. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a [1] => bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir, [2] => that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob [3] => and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed [4] => men and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up [5] => his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a [6] => morris-pike. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => What, thou meanest an officer? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings [1] => any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that [2] => thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God [3] => give you good rest!' ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the [1] => bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were [2] => you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy [3] => Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to [4] => deliver you. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fellow is distract, and so am I; [1] => And here we wander in illusions: [2] => Some blessed power deliver us from hence! ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well met, well met, Master Antipholus. [1] => I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now: [2] => Is that the chain you promised me to-day? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Master, is this Mistress Satan? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => It is the devil. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam; and here [1] => she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof [2] => comes that the wenches say 'God damn me;' that's as [3] => much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is [4] => written, they appear to men like angels of light: [5] => light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn; [6] => ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir. [1] => Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a [1] => long spoon. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Why, Dromio? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with [1] => the devil. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping? [1] => Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress: [2] => I conjure thee to leave me and be gone. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner, [1] => Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised, [2] => And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail, [1] => A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin, [2] => A nut, a cherry-stone; [3] => But she, more covetous, would have a chain. [4] => Master, be wise: an if you give it her, [5] => The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain: [1] => I hope you do not mean to cheat me so. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => 'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad, [1] => Else would he never so demean himself. [2] => A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats, [3] => And for the same he promised me a chain: [4] => Both one and other he denies me now. [5] => The reason that I gather he is mad, [6] => Besides this present instance of his rage, [7] => Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner, [8] => Of his own doors being shut against his entrance. [9] => Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits, [10] => On purpose shut the doors against his way. [11] => My way is now to hie home to his house, [12] => And tell his wife that, being lunatic, [13] => He rush'd into my house and took perforce [14] => My ring away. This course I fittest choose; [15] => For forty ducats is too much to lose. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and the Officer [1] => Beating him [2] => Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH [3] => Beating him [4] => Striking him [5] => Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives [6] => They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus [7] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse [8] => Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse [9] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fear me not, man; I will not break away: [1] => I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money, [2] => To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for. [3] => My wife is in a wayward mood to-day, [4] => And will not lightly trust the messenger [5] => That I should be attach'd in Ephesus, [6] => I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears. [7] => Here comes my man; I think he brings the money. [8] => How now, sir! have you that I sent you for? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter DROMIO of Ephesus with a rope's-end ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => But where's the money? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => To what end did I bid thee hie thee home? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => To a rope's-end, sir; and to that end am I returned. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And to that end, sir, I will welcome you. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Good sir, be patient. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Good, now, hold thy tongue. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Thou whoreson, senseless villain! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel [1] => your blows. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long [1] => ears. I have served him from the hour of my [2] => nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his [3] => hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he [4] => heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me [5] => with beating; I am waked with it when I sleep; [6] => raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with [7] => it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when [8] => I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a [9] => beggar wont her brat; and, I think when he hath [10] => lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or [1] => rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the [2] => rope's-end.' ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Wilt thou still talk? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => How say you now? is not your husband mad? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His incivility confirms no less. [1] => Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; [2] => Establish him in his true sense again, [3] => And I will please you what you will demand. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks! ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy! ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => There is my hand, and let it feel your ear. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, [1] => To yield possession to my holy prayers [2] => And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight: [3] => I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven! ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You minion, you, are these your customers? [1] => Did this companion with the saffron face [2] => Revel and feast it at my house to-day, [3] => Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut [4] => And I denied to enter in my house? ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O husband, God doth know you dined at home; [1] => Where would you had remain'd until this time, [2] => Free from these slanders and this open shame! ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And did not she herself revile me there? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Sans fable, she herself reviled you there. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And did not I in rage depart from thence? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In verity you did; my bones bear witness, [1] => That since have felt the vigour of his rage. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Is't good to soothe him in these contraries? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein, [1] => And yielding to him humours well his frenzy. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, I sent you money to redeem you, [1] => By Dromio here, who came in haste for it. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Money by me! heart and goodwill you might; [1] => But surely master, not a rag of money. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => He came to me and I deliver'd it. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => And I am witness with her that she did. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => God and the rope-maker bear me witness [1] => That I was sent for nothing but a rope! ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mistress, both man and master is possess'd; [1] => I know it by their pale and deadly looks: [2] => They must be bound and laid in some dark room. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day? [1] => And why dost thou deny the bag of gold? ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And, gentle master, I received no gold; [1] => But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all; [1] => And art confederate with a damned pack [2] => To make a loathsome abject scorn of me: [3] => But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes [4] => That would behold in me this shameful sport. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => More company! The fiend is strong within him. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou, [1] => I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them [2] => To make a rescue? ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Masters, let him go [1] => He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PINCH [LINE] => Go bind this man, for he is frantic too. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer? [1] => Hast thou delight to see a wretched man [2] => Do outrage and displeasure to himself? ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is my prisoner: if I let him go, [1] => The debt he owes will be required of me. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will discharge thee ere I go from thee: [1] => Bear me forthwith unto his creditor, [2] => And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. [3] => Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd [4] => Home to my house. O most unhappy day! ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => O most unhappy strumpet! ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Master, I am here entered in bond for you. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me? ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master: [1] => cry 'The devil!' ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk! ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me. [1] => Say now, whose suit is he arrested at? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and Courtezan ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him? ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => I know the man. What is the sum he owes? ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Two hundred ducats. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Say, how grows it due? ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Due for a chain your husband had of him. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When as your husband all in rage to-day [1] => Came to my house and took away my ring-- [2] => The ring I saw upon his finger now-- [3] => Straight after did I meet him with a chain. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It may be so, but I did never see it. [1] => Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is: [2] => I long to know the truth hereof at large. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => God, for thy mercy! they are loose again. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And come with naked swords. [1] => Let's call more help to have them bound again. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Away! they'll kill us. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I see these witches are afraid of swords. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => She that would be your wife now ran from you. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence: [1] => I long that we were safe and sound aboard. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us [1] => no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold: [2] => methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for [3] => the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of [4] => me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and [5] => turn witch. ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will not stay to-night for all the town; [1] => Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A street before a Priory. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO [1] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse [2] => They draw [3] => Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others [4] => Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse to the Priory [5] => Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA [6] => Exit [7] => Enter DUKE SOLINUS, attended; AEGEON bareheaded; with the Headsman and other Officers [8] => Enter a Servant [9] => Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus [10] => Exit one to Abbess [11] => Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse [12] => All gather to see them [13] => Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus [14] => Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus [15] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you; [1] => But, I protest, he had the chain of me, [2] => Though most dishonestly he doth deny it. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => How is the man esteemed here in the city? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of very reverend reputation, sir, [1] => Of credit infinite, highly beloved, [2] => Second to none that lives here in the city: [3] => His word might bear my wealth at any time. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck [1] => Which he forswore most monstrously to have. [2] => Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him. [3] => Signior Antipholus, I wonder much [4] => That you would put me to this shame and trouble; [5] => And, not without some scandal to yourself, [6] => With circumstance and oaths so to deny [7] => This chain which now you wear so openly: [8] => Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment, [9] => You have done wrong to this my honest friend, [10] => Who, but for staying on our controversy, [11] => Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day: [12] => This chain you had of me; can you deny it? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I think I had; I never did deny it. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Who heard me to deny it or forswear it? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee. [1] => Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest [2] => To walk where any honest man resort. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art a villain to impeach me thus: [1] => I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty [2] => Against thee presently, if thou darest stand. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => I dare, and do defy thee for a villain. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad. [1] => Some get within him, take his sword away: [2] => Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house! [1] => This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd! ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To fetch my poor distracted husband hence. [1] => Let us come in, that we may bind him fast [2] => And bear him home for his recovery. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I knew he was not in his perfect wits. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => I am sorry now that I did draw on him. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => How long hath this possession held the man? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad, [1] => And much different from the man he was; [2] => But till this afternoon his passion [3] => Ne'er brake into extremity of rage. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea? [1] => Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye [2] => Stray'd his affection in unlawful love? [3] => A sin prevailing much in youthful men, [4] => Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing. [5] => Which of these sorrows is he subject to? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To none of these, except it be the last; [1] => Namely, some love that drew him oft from home. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => You should for that have reprehended him. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Why, so I did. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Ay, but not rough enough. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => As roughly as my modesty would let me. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Haply, in private. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => And in assemblies too. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Ay, but not enough. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It was the copy of our conference: [1] => In bed he slept not for my urging it; [2] => At board he fed not for my urging it; [3] => Alone, it was the subject of my theme; [4] => In company I often glanced it; [5] => Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thereof came it that the man was mad. [1] => The venom clamours of a jealous woman [2] => Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. [3] => It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing, [4] => And therefore comes it that his head is light. [5] => Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings: [6] => Unquiet meals make ill digestions; [7] => Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; [8] => And what's a fever but a fit of madness? [9] => Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls: [10] => Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue [11] => But moody and dull melancholy, [12] => Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, [13] => And at her heels a huge infectious troop [14] => Of pale distemperatures and foes to life? [15] => In food, in sport and life-preserving rest [16] => To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast: [17] => The consequence is then thy jealous fits [18] => Have scared thy husband from the use of wits. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She never reprehended him but mildly, [1] => When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly. [2] => Why bear you these rebukes and answer not? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She did betray me to my own reproof. [1] => Good people enter and lay hold on him. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => No, not a creature enters in my house. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Then let your servants bring my husband forth. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Neither: he took this place for sanctuary, [1] => And it shall privilege him from your hands [2] => Till I have brought him to his wits again, [3] => Or lose my labour in assaying it. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will attend my husband, be his nurse, [1] => Diet his sickness, for it is my office, [2] => And will have no attorney but myself; [3] => And therefore let me have him home with me. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be patient; for I will not let him stir [1] => Till I have used the approved means I have, [2] => With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers, [3] => To make of him a formal man again: [4] => It is a branch and parcel of mine oath, [5] => A charitable duty of my order. [6] => Therefore depart and leave him here with me. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will not hence and leave my husband here: [1] => And ill it doth beseem your holiness [2] => To separate the husband and the wife. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Complain unto the duke of this indignity. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet [1] => And never rise until my tears and prayers [2] => Have won his grace to come in person hither [3] => And take perforce my husband from the abbess. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By this, I think, the dial points at five: [1] => Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person [2] => Comes this way to the melancholy vale, [3] => The place of death and sorry execution, [4] => Behind the ditches of the abbey here. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Upon what cause? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To see a reverend Syracusian merchant, [1] => Who put unluckily into this bay [2] => Against the laws and statutes of this town, [3] => Beheaded publicly for his offence. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => See where they come: we will behold his death. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet once again proclaim it publicly, [1] => If any friend will pay the sum for him, [2] => He shall not die; so much we tender him. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess! ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is a virtuous and a reverend lady: [1] => It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband, [1] => Whom I made lord of me and all I had, [2] => At your important letters,--this ill day [3] => A most outrageous fit of madness took him; [4] => That desperately he hurried through the street, [5] => With him his bondman, all as mad as he-- [6] => Doing displeasure to the citizens [7] => By rushing in their houses, bearing thence [8] => Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like. [9] => Once did I get him bound and sent him home, [10] => Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went, [11] => That here and there his fury had committed. [12] => Anon, I wot not by what strong escape, [13] => He broke from those that had the guard of him; [14] => And with his mad attendant and himself, [15] => Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords, [16] => Met us again and madly bent on us, [17] => Chased us away; till, raising of more aid, [18] => We came again to bind them. Then they fled [19] => Into this abbey, whither we pursued them: [20] => And here the abbess shuts the gates on us [21] => And will not suffer us to fetch him out, [22] => Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence. [23] => Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command [24] => Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Long since thy husband served me in my wars, [1] => And I to thee engaged a prince's word, [2] => When thou didst make him master of thy bed, [3] => To do him all the grace and good I could. [4] => Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate [5] => And bid the lady abbess come to me. [6] => I will determine this before I stir. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself! [1] => My master and his man are both broke loose, [2] => Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor [3] => Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire; [4] => And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him [5] => Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair: [6] => My master preaches patience to him and the while [7] => His man with scissors nicks him like a fool, [8] => And sure, unless you send some present help, [9] => Between them they will kill the conjurer. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here, [1] => And that is false thou dost report to us. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true; [1] => I have not breathed almost since I did see it. [2] => He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you, [3] => To scorch your face and to disfigure you. [4] => Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone! ) [STAGEDIR] => Cry within ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Come, stand by me; fear nothing. Guard with halberds! ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you, [1] => That he is borne about invisible: [2] => Even now we housed him in the abbey here; [3] => And now he's there, past thought of human reason. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice! [1] => Even for the service that long since I did thee, [2] => When I bestrid thee in the wars and took [3] => Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood [4] => That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unless the fear of death doth make me dote, [1] => I see my son Antipholus and Dromio. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there! [1] => She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife, [2] => That hath abused and dishonour'd me [3] => Even in the strength and height of injury! [4] => Beyond imagination is the wrong [5] => That she this day hath shameless thrown on me. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Discover how, and thou shalt find me just. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me, [1] => While she with harlots feasted in my house. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister [1] => To-day did dine together. So befall my soul [2] => As this is false he burdens me withal! ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night, [1] => But she tells to your highness simple truth! ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O perjured woman! They are both forsworn: [1] => In this the madman justly chargeth them. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My liege, I am advised what I say, [1] => Neither disturbed with the effect of wine, [2] => Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire, [3] => Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad. [4] => This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner: [5] => That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her, [6] => Could witness it, for he was with me then; [7] => Who parted with me to go fetch a chain, [8] => Promising to bring it to the Porpentine, [9] => Where Balthazar and I did dine together. [10] => Our dinner done, and he not coming thither, [11] => I went to seek him: in the street I met him [12] => And in his company that gentleman. [13] => There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down [14] => That I this day of him received the chain, [15] => Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which [16] => He did arrest me with an officer. [17] => I did obey, and sent my peasant home [18] => For certain ducats: he with none return'd [19] => Then fairly I bespoke the officer [20] => To go in person with me to my house. [21] => By the way we met [22] => My wife, her sister, and a rabble more [23] => Of vile confederates. Along with them [24] => They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, [25] => A mere anatomy, a mountebank, [26] => A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, [27] => A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, [28] => A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave, [29] => Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, [30] => And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, [31] => And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me, [32] => Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together [33] => They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence [34] => And in a dark and dankish vault at home [35] => There left me and my man, both bound together; [36] => Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, [37] => I gain'd my freedom, and immediately [38] => Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech [39] => To give me ample satisfaction [40] => For these deep shames and great indignities. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him, [1] => That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => But had he such a chain of thee or no? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He had, my lord: and when he ran in here, [1] => These people saw the chain about his neck. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Merchant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine [1] => Heard you confess you had the chain of him [2] => After you first forswore it on the mart: [3] => And thereupon I drew my sword on you; [4] => And then you fled into this abbey here, [5] => From whence, I think, you are come by miracle. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I never came within these abbey-walls, [1] => Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me: [2] => I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven! [3] => And this is false you burden me withal. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, what an intricate impeach is this! [1] => I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup. [2] => If here you housed him, here he would have been; [3] => If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly: [4] => You say he dined at home; the goldsmith here [5] => Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you? ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => 'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither. [1] => I think you are all mated or stark mad. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word: [1] => Haply I see a friend will save my life [2] => And pay the sum that may deliver me. ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus? [1] => And is not that your bondman, Dromio? ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Within this hour I was his bondman sir, [1] => But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords: [2] => Now am I Dromio and his man unbound. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => I am sure you both of you remember me. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you; [1] => For lately we were bound, as you are now [2] => You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir? ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Why look you strange on me? you know me well. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, [1] => And careful hours with time's deformed hand [2] => Have written strange defeatures in my face: [3] => But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Neither. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Dromio, nor thou? ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => No, trust me, sir, nor I. ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => I am sure thou dost. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not; and whatsoever a [1] => man denies, you are now bound to believe him. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not know my voice! O time's extremity, [1] => Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue [2] => In seven short years, that here my only son [3] => Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares? [4] => Though now this grained face of mine be hid [5] => In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, [6] => And all the conduits of my blood froze up, [7] => Yet hath my night of life some memory, [8] => My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, [9] => My dull deaf ears a little use to hear: [10] => All these old witnesses--I cannot err-- [11] => Tell me thou art my son Antipholus. ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I never saw my father in my life. ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, [1] => Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son, [2] => Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The duke and all that know me in the city [1] => Can witness with me that it is not so [2] => I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years [1] => Have I been patron to Antipholus, [2] => During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa: [3] => I see thy age and dangers make thee dote. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me. ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One of these men is Genius to the other; [1] => And so of these. Which is the natural man, [2] => And which the spirit? who deciphers them? ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay. ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost? ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => O, my old master! who hath bound him here? ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds [1] => And gain a husband by his liberty. [2] => Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man [3] => That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia [4] => That bore thee at a burden two fair sons: [5] => O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak, [6] => And speak unto the same AEmilia! ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEGEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I dream not, thou art AEmilia: [1] => If thou art she, tell me where is that son [2] => That floated with thee on the fatal raft? ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By men of Epidamnum he and I [1] => And the twin Dromio all were taken up; [2] => But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth [3] => By force took Dromio and my son from them [4] => And me they left with those of Epidamnum. [5] => What then became of them I cannot tell [6] => I to this fortune that you see me in. ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, here begins his morning story right; [1] => These two Antipholuses, these two so like, [2] => And these two Dromios, one in semblance,-- [3] => Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,-- [4] => These are the parents to these children, [5] => Which accidentally are met together. [6] => Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first? ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse. ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which. ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,-- ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And I with him. ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Brought to this town by that most famous warrior, [1] => Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. ) ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Which of you two did dine with me to-day? ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I, gentle mistress. ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => And are not you my husband? ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => No; I say nay to that. ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And so do I; yet did she call me so: [1] => And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here, [2] => Did call me brother. [3] => What I told you then, [4] => I hope I shall have leisure to make good; [5] => If this be not a dream I see and hear. ) [STAGEDIR] => To Luciana ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => That is the chain, sir, which you had of me. ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => I think it be, sir; I deny it not. ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => And you, sir, for this chain arrested me. ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I think I did, sir; I deny it not. ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ADRIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I sent you money, sir, to be your bail, [1] => By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. ) ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => No, none by me. ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This purse of ducats I received from you, [1] => And Dromio, my man, did bring them me. [2] => I see we still did meet each other's man, [3] => And I was ta'en for him, and he for me, [4] => And thereupon these errors are arose. ) ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => These ducats pawn I for my father here. ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => It shall not need; thy father hath his life. ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Courtezan [LINE] => Sir, I must have that diamond from you. ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer. ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AEMELIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains [1] => To go with us into the abbey here [2] => And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes: [3] => And all that are assembled in this place, [4] => That by this sympathized one day's error [5] => Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company, [6] => And we shall make full satisfaction. [7] => Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail [8] => Of you, my sons; and till this present hour [9] => My heavy burden ne'er delivered. [10] => The duke, my husband and my children both, [11] => And you the calendars of their nativity, [12] => Go to a gossips' feast and go with me; [13] => After so long grief, such festivity! ) ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE SOLINUS [LINE] => With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast. ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard? ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd? ) [132] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur. ) [133] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio: [1] => Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon: [2] => Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him. ) ) [134] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is a fat friend at your master's house, [1] => That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner: [2] => She now shall be my sister, not my wife. ) ) [135] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: [1] => I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth. [2] => Will you walk in to see their gossiping? ) ) [136] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => Not I, sir; you are my elder. ) [137] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => That's a question: how shall we try it? ) [138] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [LINE] => We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first. ) [139] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DROMIO OF EPHESUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, then, thus: [1] => We came into the world like brother and brother; [2] => And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. ) ) ) ) ) ) )